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Historical Event on 4/15/1948
Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh was created by the merger of some 30 small ruling states.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/2/1994 | Opposition quits Parliament panels, boycotts sessions. |
| 1/12/1757 | Captain Eyre Coote from the Portuguese was captured in Bandel. |
| 4/8/1919 | Gandhiji arrested on way to Delhi for refusal to comply with order not to enter Punjab; escorted back to Bombay; outbreaks of violence in several towns. |
| 9/19/1704 | Guru Govind Singh died. |
| 12/9/1977 | Ravishankar Mahashankar Rawal, famous painter, passed away. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 10/29/1851 | British Indian Association was established in Bengal with Radha Kanta Dev as president and Devendranath Tagore as the Secretary. |
| 11/5/1996 | Narashima Rao, former PM, refused bail in St. Kitts forgery case. |
| 9/28/1965 | India-Pakistan hostility erupts into a war lead by Pakistan. |
| 5/19/1982 | Elections for Assemblies held in West Bengal, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala. |
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